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| | <p> '''Jezreel, Valley of.''' [[A]] triangular plain extending from the [[Mediterranean]] to the Jordan, and from the ridge of [[Carmel]] to the mountains in Galilee. It is about 25 miles long from east to west, and 12 miles wide from north to south. There [[Barak]] and [[Gideon]] triumphed; [[Deborah]] sung her war song; Saul and [[Jonathan]] fell near by, on the mountains of Gilboa; here king [[Josiah]] was mortally wounded by the Egyptians. From the base of this triangular plain three branches stretch out eastward, divided by two bleak gray ridges, one called Mount Gilboa, the other Little Hermon. The central branch is the richest as well as the most celebrated. It is the valley of [[Jezreel]] proper; the battle-field where Gideon triumphed and Saul and Jonathan were overthrown. Judges 7:1, ff.; 1 Samuel 29:1-11; 1 Samuel 31:1-13. The plain is noted for its wonderful richness. </p> |
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| | <p> [[Sprung]] from the father, i.e. founder, of [[Etam]] ( 1 Chronicles 4:3). [[Else]] supply from 1 Chronicles 4:2, "these are (the families) of the father of Etam" (or Abietam, one name).(See [[Etam.)]] </p> |
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| | == Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature <ref name="term_46181" /> == |
| | <p> '''Bibliography Information''' McClintock, John. Strong, James. Entry for 'Jezreel (2)'. Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and [[Ecclesiastical]] Literature. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/tce/j/jezreel-2.html. [[Harper]] & Brothers. New York. 1870. </p> |
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| <p> ("God has sown".) Esdraelon. Now Zerin at the foot of Mount Gilboa, ten miles [[S.E.]] of Nazareth. In Issachar: Joshua 19:18. Ahab's royal residence was on the [[E.]] of the city, and near it was the [[Jezreelite]] Naboth's vineyard; whereas [[Samaria]] (in the sense of the city) was his capital ( 1 Kings 18:46; 1 Kings 21:1; 1 Kings 22:10; 2 Kings 9:15). By the fountain of [[Jezreel]] [[Israel]] pitched before the battle of [[Gilboa]] ( 1 Samuel 29:1). [[A]] large fountain still flows out of a cavern in the conglomerate rock at the northern base of Mount Gilboa. Zerin commands an extensive view to the mountains [[E.]] of [[Jordan]] and along the great plain to Mount Carmel. On the [[N.E.,]] the hill on which Jezreel stood, is a steep descent of rock, 100 ft. high. Strong and central, the site was admirable for a city. Jezebel's apartments were on the city wall, with a window facing [[E.,]] and a watchtower for noticing arrivals from the Jordan quarter. </p> <p> An old square tower still standing may occupy its site. The city's eastern gateway was the palace gateway, in front of which was the open space, usual in Eastern cities, called "the mounds," where the dogs, their scavengers, devoured Jezebel's carcass. (See [[Jezebel.)]] Hosea's oldest son by [[Gomer]] was named Jezreel ( Hosea 1:4), to imply that as Ahab's family miserably perished there, so would their destroyer Jehu's family perish, because the latter had retained the sin which he had been elevated in order to root out. (See [[Hosea.)]] God saith [["I]] will avenge the blood of Jezreel (2 Kings 9; 2 Kings 10:11; 2 Kings 10:14) upon the house of Jehu," because the blood so shed by [[Jehu]] was not with a view to doing God's will, but to further his own ambition; this he proved by soon disobeying God when the retaining of the calf worship seemed to him politic. </p> <p> Jezreel means both "God scatters" and "God sows." As He "scattered" them under Jehu, and finally by the [[Assyrian]] deportation, so He will "sow" them again; and so Jezreel will represent the similarly sounding Israel; "great shall be the day of Jezreel" when "Judah and Israel shall be gathered together, and appoint (unto) themselves one head, and shall come up out of the land" (of the Gentiles) where God. sowed them ( Zechariah 10:9; Hosea 1:11). They shall then be the seed of God sown in their own land ( Hosea 2:23; Ezekiel 36:9; Jeremiah 31:27; Jeremiah 32:41; Amos 9:15). [[The]] [[Valley]] [[Of]] [[Jezreel]] (or [[Esdraelon,]] as it is called in Judith 3:9) stretches across the center of [[Palestine]] from the [[Mediterranean]] to the Jordan, separating [[Carmel]] and Samaria's mountain ranges from those of Galilee. </p> <p> The western portion is the plain of Accho. The main body is an irregular triangle, its base stretching from [[Engannim]] to the hills below Nazareth, about 15 miles: one side formed by the [[Galilee]] hills, about 12 miles; the other 18, running on the northern side of the [[Samaritan]] range. The top of the triangle is the pass, half a mile wide, opening into [[Accho]] plain. It is the ancient [[Megiddo]] plain, the [[Armageddon]] of Revelation 16:16. (See [[Armageddon.)]] The [[Kishon]] drains it, flowing [[W.]] by Accho into the Mediterranean. </p> <p> From this triangular plain's base three branches stretch [[E.,]] divided by bleak Mount Gilboa and Little Hermon. (See Porter, Handbook to Syria.) Though rich and luxuriant in spring, only about a sixth of it is cultivated, and there is not an inhabited village in the main portion, chiefly owing to the insecurity from Bedouin marauders. It mainly belonged to Issachar, which, exposed to every incursion, lived in a nearly nomadic state and sought David's protection ( Genesis 49:14-15 "tents," 1 Chronicles 12:32; 1 Chronicles 12:40), and formed Zebulun's frontier ( Deuteronomy 33:18). It was Israel's great field of battle with invaders: Sisera, Judges 4 and 5; Midian, Judges 7; the [[Philistines]] at Gilboa, 1 Samuel 29,31; [[Pharaoh]] [[Necho]] at Megiddo, 2 Kings 23:29. </p>
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